Bank technology

Swift's offshoot Innotribe held a startup competition Thursday. Winners' products centered on mobile fraud, crowdfunding and P2P mobile payments.

Mountain America Credit Union is placing a mobile and internet banking specialist in each of its 76 branches.

The technology giant announced Friday that it's adding two-factor authentication to its Azure cloud computing platform.

Banks that have made the leap to Microsoft's cloud-based office productivity software, Office 365, will want to check out the company's Office 365 app in the iTunes Store, which made its debut Thursday.

SecureKey, a Canadian online authentication company, says MasterPass users will now be able to make more secure transactions with devices that come pre-installed with its bridge.net software and authentication service.

Bankers and tech vendors have given up on the reliability of passwords and other conventional forms of authentication. Now some are turning to hardware as a more secure option. American Banker editors discuss the advantages, and limits, of such options.

Associated Bank plans to use analytics so it can make more appropriate sales pitches and help business clients better manage their affairs.

An international ring of cyber thieves are being charged in a roughly $15 million attempt to game the digital networks of more than a dozen banks, federal agencies and financial services companies, including Citibank, PayPal, JPMorgan Chase, USAA and even the Department of Defense.

For banks that have small, stressed compliance departments, Computer Services, Inc. is offering an advice service.

Regulators can use the power of Big Data mining and pattern-matching algorithms to seek out triggers of contagion across an interconnected financial system.

In addition to addressing the risks that caused the last crisis, the Financial Stability Oversight Council should be comparing notes about cyber threats with the national security agencies.

Regulators are focusing attention on ensuring community banks have proper security systems in place in the wake of a string of cyberattacks on megabanks.

The New York based company said Wednesday it had secured the funding from a group of investors led by Venrock and Institutional Venture Partners.

During congressional testimony, an FBI official said since 2002 the number of computer intrusion cases the agency has investigated has risen by 84 percent.

Sometimes it takes a technology death to inspire a better process.

JPMorgan Chase's partnership with social-media site Twitter will include content meant to help small businesses grow.

Hackers' use of a social network evolution of the Zeus malware has made a comeback in the first half the year.

Australia's Commonwealth Bank has launched an online retail banking support forum.

Live Oak Bancshares is quickly expanding both sides of its business — announcing a partnership with Fidelity that will give its namesake SBA lender access to fresh investment advisor borrowers, and a $9 million round for its cloud-computing tech offshoot, nCino.

Many of bankers' concerns and fears about the FFIEC's proposed social media rules are unfounded, says Elizabeth Khalil, senior policy analyst at the FDIC.